Stop Calling This a Zombie Movie!!!

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2003)

Its not a zombie movie. At all. If you want to put this movie in a Horror Sub-genre, its a "last man alive" movie, or an apocolypse movie. Its closer to a remake of "The Omega Man" than a zombie movie. They're not dead! They're just infected people. Like in Omega man.
People who watch this movie expecting a zombie movie will be greatly disappointed. I mean, how many are actually killed? Three, four? How many exploding heads? I'll tell you, big fat zero!
I personally think this movie doesn't even really deserve to be considered horror. Its a psychological thriller. I mean, the point of the movie is to explore what people FEEL when faced with the end of the world. Even the director admits that in the commentary. Thats not horror, where the point is to scare people, thats a psychological thriller. And look at the people who love it. Are they the usual "horror movie buffs"? NO, its critics and chick flick lovers.
The marketing world is calling 28 Days Later a horror movie and a zombie movie, because they think that will help sales, and because they don't know any better. They probably only see 5 horror movies a year. Once word gets out from people who actually love zombie movies as to what this movie is like, its popularity will decline fast.
DirkMaster